Brad Pitt tops the list of celebrity names used by malware coders
September 18th, 2008 Leave a comment Visited 34 times, 1 so far today
Brad Pitt tops the list of celebrity names used by malware coders
Security application maker McAfee has released a new report based on the riskiest celebrities in cyberspace.
This list names the celebrity names in the order they are most likely to be used by malicious coders to lure web users into downloading bad software.
Brad Pitt has topped the list followed by other popular names like Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake.
This is the second year that the company has made such a list available.
This points out the popularity of the particular individual online as content related to them is used to lure people onto sites containing bad code.
The top 15 on the list:
Brad Pitt
Beyoncé
Justin Timberlake
Heidi Montag
Mariah Carey
Jessica Alba
Lindsay Lohan
Cameron Diaz
George Clooney
Rihanna
Angelina Jolie
Fergie
David Beckham
Katie Holmes
Katherine Heigl
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